Violence from above can only be ended by violence from below

Evidence

These means include violence because in a world where oppression is maintained by violence from above, it is only possible to liquidate it with violence from below. Ultimately, once the struggle reaches a certain point, arms in hand are indispensable. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 10

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Without mobilized bodies there is no state power, only violence.; Revolutionary violence must be contextualized rather than used to dismiss its ideals; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”

Related

• Without mobilized bodies there is no state power, only violence. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary violence must be contextualized rather than used to dismiss its ideals #qualifies (0.55)